LEADER 03219nam 22005531 450 001 9910511362603321 005 20180815080843.0 010 $a1-350-15254-4 010 $a1-350-04206-4 010 $a1-350-04202-1 024 7 $a10.5040/9781350042063 035 $a(CKB)4100000005117251 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5447854 035 $a(OCoLC)1172298967 035 $a(UtOrBLW)bpp09262075 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000005117251 100 $a20180822d2018 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe ethics of resistance $etyranny of the absolute /$fDrew M. Dalton 210 1$aLondon :$cBloomsbury Academic,$d2018. 215 $a1 online resource (169 pages) 300 $aIncludes index. 311 $a1-350-04204-8 311 $a1-350-04203-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 143-149). 327 $gPart 1.$tThe tyranny of the absolute --$gPart 2.$tThe ethics of resistance. 330 $a"Opening a new debate on ethical reasoning after Kant, Drew Dalton addresses the problem of the absolute in ethical and political thought. Attacking the foundation of European philosophical morality, he critiques the idea that in order for ethical judgement to have any real power, it must attempt to discover and affirm some conception of the absolute good. Without rejecting the essential role the absolute plays within ethical reasoning, Dalton interrogates the assumed value of the absolute. Dalton brings some of the most influential contemporary philosophical traditions into dialogue with each other: speculative realists like Badiou and Meillassoux; phenomenologists, including Husserl, Heidegger, and Levinas; German Idealists, especially Kant and Schelling; psychoanalysts Freud and Lacan; and finally, post-structuralists, specifically Foucault, Deleuze, and Ranciere. The relevance of these thinkers to concrete socio-political problems is shown through reflections on the Holocaust, suicide bombings, the rise of neo-liberalism and neo-nationalism, as well as rampant consumerism and racism. This book re-defines ethical reasoning as that which refuses absolutes and resists what Milton's devil in Paradise Lost called the "tyranny of heaven." Against traditional ethical reasoning, Dalton sees evil not as a moral failure, but as the result of an all too easy assent to the absolute; an assent which can only be countered through active resistance. For Dalton, resistance to the absolute is the sole channel through which the good can be defined."--Bloomsbury Publishing. 606 $aEthics 606 $aHolocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) 606 $aNeoliberalism 606 $aSuicide bombings 606 $2Ethics & moral philosophy 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aEthics. 615 0$aHolocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) 615 0$aNeoliberalism. 615 0$aSuicide bombings. 676 $a101 700 $aDalton$b Drew M.$f1978-$01068292 801 0$bUtOrBLW 801 1$bUtOrBLW 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910511362603321 996 $aThe ethics of resistance$92552871 997 $aUNINA